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"Listening to Eight to the Bar is a lot like driving along a time-warped highway precisely halfway between Count Basie’s Kansas City and Motown Records’ Detroit, where the car radio picks up everything from Take the A Train to I Want You Back. Their material, like their outlandish wardrobes and onstage choreo, is a colorful mix of forties jive, fifties melodrama, and sixties through eighties Motown. With their female vocals, saxophone (their sax player, Collin Tilton, is the original sax player who toured with Van Morrison and performed on his platinum-selling Moondance album), guitar, bass, keyboards, and drums, this unique sextet pack a musical and visual wallop not seen in New England since the group’s inception in 1975. Since that time they have released 12 CDs, 7 videos, and have excited audiences from the US to Europe to the Caribbean. Recently they had the honor of touring the Republic of Georgia at the invitation of the U.S. Embassy there."

Tom Smith, New Haven Advocate

Drawing its musical influences from American roots music -- swing, boogie-woogie, and Motown, Eight to the Bar is known for its outstanding instrumentalists and sophisticated musical and vocal arrangements, highlighted by female vocals.

With the support of independently produced CDs and videos, Eight to the Bar has cultivated a large, enthusiastic following that has put them in clubs from Maine to Miami as well as Europe and the Caribbean. Their rigorous touring schedule has included opening spots for Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Manhattan Transfer, Robert Cray, the late Roy Orbison and Ray Charles, several European tours, and most recently, a tour of the Republic of Georgia at the invitation of the U.S. Embassy located there.

Besides live music venues, ETTB is available for private functions and celebrations. See/hear us in action!

Want to hear what our new CD sounds like? Check out excerpts from our 40th Anniversary show at Infinity Hall in Norfolk, CT where we played cuts from it LIVE:

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WE WON "BEST OVERALL BAND" IN THE CT. NOW 2018 READERS' POLL! THANKS, FANS FOR VOTING FOR US!

NEWS! Our sax/flute player Collin Tilton's flute solo from Van Morrison's classic Moondance album ends up in a new book called 25 Great Flute Solos on Hal Leonard Publishing! Read all about it-

Can we brag a little bit about our sax/flute player, Collin Tilton? A book came out called "25 Great Flute Solos" and he's in it! He's also in good company! (think "Knights in White Satin," "Going Up the Country," "The Hustle," "California Dreaming," "Rockin' Robin"). All this is because he was Van Morrison's sax/flute player back in the day and recorded the epic album "Moondance" on which he played the flute (Moondance) and sax (Into the Mystic) throughout. The book includes both the music for his solo and also a write up about him and a photo; he recorded "Moondance" at the tender age of 24. Whoopee!

Our brand new CD, Bring It & Swing It! is here and getting great reviews (click on our Press page to read them!)--eleven great mostly original songs that encompass elements of swing, jazz, blues, doo-wop, country swing, and even rock! One of the highlights of the CD is two live cuts that are our biggest fan fave songs-Play It On YourSaxophone and Party in Providence, both recorded LIVE at our 40th Anniversary blowout at Infinity Hall in Norfolk, CT. This is our best CD yet! You can buy it on CD Baby, Itunes, amazon.com, and the Store page right here on our website!

If you live in any of these areas, please call and request some tunes from the new CD!

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Our brand new CD, "Bring It & Swing It" has just come out! This is our 12th CD! You can collect 'em all, starting with our 1979 debut, recorded live at Toad's Place in New Haven. All CDs are available right here on this website (on the "Store" page) or through CD Baby, I-tunes or Amazon.